4 papers
Actively evaluating and learning the distinctions that matter: Vaccine safety signal detection from emergency triage notes
Sedigh Khademi, Christopher Palmer, Muhammad Javed +4
The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines has showcased the global communitys ability to combat infectious diseases. However, the need for post-licensure surveillance systems has…
Enhancing Vaccine Safety Surveillance: Extracting Vaccine Mentions from Emergency Department Triage Notes Using Fine-Tuned Large Language Models
Sedigh Khademi, Jim Black, Christopher Palmer +4
This study evaluates fine-tuned Llama 3.2 models for extracting vaccine-related information from emergency department triage notes to support near real-time vaccine safety surveill…
VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
Muhammad Javed, Sedigh Khademi, Joanne Hickman +3
The recent vaccine-related infodemic has amplified public concerns, highlighting the need for proactive misinformation management. We describe how we enhanced the reporting surveil…
Intelligent audit code generation from free text in the context of neurosurgery
Sedigheh Khademi, Christopher Palmer, Pari Delir Haghighi +2
Clinical auditing requires codified data for aggregation and analysis of patterns. However in the medical domain obtaining structured data can be difficult as the most natural, exp…